I self-host discourse. But I do not like to deploy unstable releases (betas or even worse: from tests passing). However, it seems that discourse only includes security fixes in these unstable releases. So server administrators who prefer to deploy only from stable releases miss out on potentially cr…

Stable builds do receive security fixes as warranted. Not every security fix mentioned in the beta release notes requires backporting, however. Some may be trivial/minor, and not worth the effort/risk to backport. Others may medium/critical, but are due to change from an earlier beta such that the s…

I believe it’s you specified the stable branch then it wouldn’t be recommending the upgrade. Many more sites run tests passed than stable or beta (including cdck hosting), so tests-passed is in some ways safer than stable. Because of that, I think it’s more work to run stable. That said, those who …

Backporting security fixes onto stable releases

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core April 3, 2021, 10:50am 3

Fair enough. Thanks for the explanation.

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Backporting security fixes onto stable releases

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